In this series I'll present chronological tours, tracing the lines of artistic succession through teachers and pupils, parents and children, close collaborators or other relationships that have represented a more or less relevant influence.

In this first post, we began in the Dutch and Flemish Renaissance, at the end of the 15th century, passing through Romanism, Mannerism, Baroque, Venetian school and Romanticism, until the end of the 20th century with illustrations in Italy.

Jan Gossaert was a French-speaking painter from the Low Countries also known as Jan Mabuse (the name he adopted from his birthplace, Maubeuge) or Jennyn van Hennegouwe (Hainaut), as he called himself when he matriculated in the Guild of Saint Luke, at Antwerp, in 1503. He was one of the first painters of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting to visit Italy and Rome, which he did in 1508–09, and a leader of the style known as Romanism, which brought elements of Italian Renaissance painting to the north, sometimes with a rather awkward effect. He achieved fame across at least northern Europe, and painted religious subjects, including large altarpieces, but also portraits and mythological subjects, including some nudity. Wikipedia

There has been much speculation about whether Gossart had any apprentices other than the two he trained in Antwerp early in his career. Jan van Scorel, Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen, and Lambert Lombard are sometimes proposed as possible students. Van Scorel apparently went to visit or pay homage to Gossart in 1517, when he was at Wijk bij Duurstede, and Lambert is thought to have worked with Gossart in Middelburg about 1525; to say that they apprenticed with Gossart is unjustified. MET

Lambert Lombard was a Renaissance painter, architect and theorist born in Liège c.1505.

In 1532 he became court painter and architect. In 1537 he was sent to Rome by Erard de la Marck, Prince-bishop of Liège, to buy works of art, and he discovered the wonders of the Italian Renaissance. On his return he brought not only works of art, but also the new ideas concerning art and the position of the artist, to Liège.

Frans Floris, Frans Floris the Elder or Frans Floris de Vriendt was a Flemish painter mainly known for his history paintings and portraits. He played an important role in the movement in Northern Renaissance painting referred to as Romanism. The Romanists had typically travelled to Italy to study the works of leading Italian High Renaissance artists such as Michelangelo, Raphael and their followers. Their art assimilated these Italian influences into the Northern painting tradition.

Documentary evidence about the life of Frans Floris is scarce. Most of what we know about the youth and training of Frans Floris is based on the early biographer Karel van Mander's biography of the artist.

Van Mander recounts that while working on a large commission for the grand prior of Spain, Floris became ill and died on 1 October 1570 in Antwerp. His paintings for the grand prior were finished by his studio assistants Frans Pourbus the Elder and Crispin van den Broeck. Wikipedia

Crispin van den Broeck was a Flemish painter born in 1523 in Mechelen. He came from a family of artists, was probably trained by his father, and was the brother of Willem van den Broeck and Hendrick van den Broeck. He worked as a painter, draftsman and engraver. He was enlisted as a master in the Guild of St. Luke of Antwerp in 1555–6, where he became a citizen in 1559.

Van Mander also claimed that Crispin van den Broek was 'a good inventor... clever at large nudes and just as good an architect'. Wikipedia

One of several copies after an original drawing attributed to Michelangelo

Hendrick Van den Broeck was the brother of Crispin van den Broeck. Hendrick was a pupil of Frans Floris and is also known as Hendricus Malinus. He is known as a sculptor as well as a painter and worked in Naples, Florence, Umbria, and Rome. He is not to be confused with Enrico Fiammingo, a Flemish painter from a later period active in Italy. He worked with Giorgio Vasari in Rome on the decoration of the Sala Regia of the Vatican. He worked under Cesare Nebbia to help decorate the Capella Sistina of Santa Maria Maggiore, as well as the better known Sistine Chapel in the Vatican complex, where he painted a "Resurrection of Christ" on the counterfacade of the entrance, where previously there had been Domenico Ghirlandaio painting.

In 1565 he also worked in the Chapel or Capella dei Priori in the Palazzo dei Priori in Perugia, where he painted a crucifixion and restored the frescoes of Benedetto Bonfigli. Wikipedia

Niccolò Circignani was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance or Mannerist period.

He is one of three Italian painters called Pomarancio. His first works are documented from the 1560s, where he painted frescos on the Old Testament stories for the Vatican Belvedere, where he may have worked alongside Santi di Tito and Giovanni de Vecchi. He also completed altarpieces for Orvieto (1570), Umbertide (1572), Città di Castello (1573–1577) as well as Città della Pieve. Wikipedia

Giuseppe Cesari was an Italian Mannerist painter, also named Il Giuseppino and called Cavaliere d'Arpino, because he was created Cavaliere di Cristo by his patron Pope Clement VIII. He was much patronized in Rome by both Clement and Sixtus V. He was the chief of the studio in which Caravaggio trained upon the younger painter's arrival in Rome.

Cesari's father, Muzio Cesari, had been a native of Arpino, but Giuseppe himself was born in Rome. Around 1582, he worked in the workshop of Niccolò Circignani.

Besides Caravaggio, Cesari had other pupils, among Francesco Ruschi, who was also influenced by Caravaggio.

Francesco Ruschi settled in Venice before 1629. He became a friend of the writer Giovan Francesco Loredan, for whom he drew the cover pages of several works. He moved to Treviso from 1656, and died there in 1661.

Italian painter of the Baroque, was active mainly in Venice, whose prolific works can also be seen in Padua, Treviso, Rovigo, Verona, Vicenza, Loreto, Brescia, Milan, and Bergamo, as well as Bavaria.

His masterpieces were the canvas on the Plague of Venice painted for the Scuola di San Rocco and the ceiling on the Crowning of the Virgin Mary with St. Girolamo Miani (1703) in the Patriarchal Seminary of Venice, next to the Church of Santa Maria della Salute. He also painted a number of canvases for the Venetian church of Santa Maria del Giglio. Among his pupils were Francesco Trevisani and Antonio Molinari. Wikipedia

Antonio Molinari, also known as il Caraccino, was an Italian painter of the Baroque era in Venice.

He was strongly influenced by the vigorous and athletic paintings of Neapolitan painters such as Luca Giordano. He typically painted tumultuous narratives of mythology and religion in large canvases. This would influence his pupil Giovanni Battista Piazzetta. Wikipedia

Piazzetta created an art of warm, rich color and a mysterious poetry. He often depicted peasantry, even if often in a grand fashion. He was highly original in the intensity of color he sometimes used in his shadows, and in the otherworldly quality he gave to the light which throws part of a composition into relief. The gestures and glances of his protagonists hint at unseen dramas, as in one of his best-known paintings, The Soothsayer.

In 1750 Piazzetta became the first director of the newly founded Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, and he devoted the last few years of his life to teaching. He was elected a member of the Bolognese Accademia Clementina in 1727. Among the painters in his studio were, Francesco Dagiu (il Capella), Johann Heinrich Tischbein, Egidio Dall'Oglio, Antonio Marinetti, and Domenico Maggiotto. Wikipedia

Francesco Hayez was an Italian painter born in 1791. We already saw some of his paintings in this blog (see below).

In 1850 he was appointed director of the Academy of Brera in Milan. Among his pupils were Angelo Pietrasanta, Carlo Belgioioso, Amanzio Cattaneo, Alessandro Focosi, Francesco Valaperta y Achille Beltrame. Wikipedia

He initially studied in Vicenza, but then enrolled in the Brera Academy where he studied under Francesco Hayez. In 1899, he began working as an illustrator for the newspaper Corriere della Sera and illustrated the La Domenica del Corriere of Milan. He pursued this task for nearly 50 years.

One of his disciples, Walter Molino, started working with him in 1940, and continued illustrating the covers of the Magazine after Achille's dead. Wikipedia

Encounter of religious leaders. Geoffrey Francis Fischer, Archbishop of Canterbury and spiritual leader of the Church of England, will make a "courtesy visit" to John XXIII. For the first time in five centuries, since the reform took place, an archbishop of Canterbury enters the Vatican. The painter Walter Molino symbolically reconstructs the scene of the historic event.

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